Browsing Month July, 2015

RocktheCapital is pleased to endorse the proposed legislation to create Pennsylvania’s Public Integrity Commission. We applaud Representatives Schroder and his co-sponsors Representatives Yudichak, Vereb, and DePasquale in their display of leadership and bipartisan cooperation to address an issue to… Read the rest

Having already hired three former aides to Gov. Rendell, companies wanting to tap Pennsylvania’s vast natural-gas reserves have set their sights on one of the state’s best-known political figures: Tom Ridge.

Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed more than a dozen staffers working for retiring state Sen. Robert Mellow as part of an ongoing probe into public corruption in Northeast Pennsylvania, sources said Monday.

Rock the Capital, led by Eric Epstein, is one of the citizens watchdog groups that have criticized 60 state legislators for not returning to the state treasury the four months of higher pay they received

As the calendar today marks one of the most inglorious moments in the state Legislature — the much-criticized, later-rescinded pay raise of 2005 — watchdog groups say they’re not impressed with post-pay raise efforts to